Rolling Stone Magazine's review of the 1st Led Zeppelin album

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Bwah!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...lin-i-19690315

[Riccardo]

Pretty much on the money

This link from that review is pretty funny too

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-wo...ry-rock-music/

[Riccardo]

Bwaa.. check this out - baby moose kicks scientist's ass

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5...zing-humanity/

[TRENT]

written by an Idiot who never strummed a guitar

but it was interesting to hear the view of the time,,with so many good musicians out there...Never once does the Beck album and Zeps first 3 albums even pass I million light years from each other,,,Very poor analogy..as for being a writer,,I'd say Jimmy and JPJ very quickly came about into their own....the next 11 years would tell the story.

[Regal]

That guy is a renowned Zep hater. F him!

[Drama Queen]

Haha. I bet he wishes he could take this back...

-"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it.

[Drama Queen]

I could see legalizing the shooting of Chihuahuas... for sport.

[slag]

Shut up

Communication Breakdown is one of the top air guitar songs in the history of using a tennis racquet to riff.

[art vandelay]

Music critics are mostly douche bags. I've seen great albums get bad reviews initially, only to have those revised or completely deleted. I've also seen great albums get great retroactive reviews from publications that would never have done that initially. For example, pitchfork gives godweensatan a 9.6 iirc. No way they would have given that if they were around in 1990.

[IronEagle]

Music critics are mostly douche bags. I've seen great albums get bad reviews initially, only to have those revised or completely deleted. I've also seen great albums get great retroactive reviews from publications that would never have done that initially. For example, pitchfork gives godweensatan a 9.6 iirc. No way they would have given that if they were around in 1990.

I'd give Rolling Stone credit for archving their old reviews. When I had a job at the University library back in the 80's one of my favorite things to do was to pull an an old issue of it to read during downtime. There is a lot of stuff you would think is stupid now.

[Riccardo]

Aren't all critics douchebags?

Music critics are mostly douche bags. I've seen great albums get bad reviews initially, only to have those revised or completely deleted. I've also seen great albums get great retroactive reviews from publications that would never have done that initially. For example, pitchfork gives godweensatan a 9.6 iirc. No way they would have given that if they were around in 1990.

Music, movies, restaurants, etc. Not including El-Righto of course

[Regal]

My two favorite things in life: the Philadelphia Eagles and Led Zeppelin

[Riccardo]

Just heard the immigrant song live on ozzy's boneyard

Bwah!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...lin-i-19690315

Sounded like a high school garage band... turrible!

[Maniac]

really tough to criticize a review written in 1967 in 2014. tastes change.

first led zep album is the only one i particularly like other then zoso. the movie was good too.

[Regal]

Physical Graffiti is their best album. It's a little bit of everything that made Zep so great.